Bevel-gage



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L. MANNING. BEVEL GAGE.

No. 596,413. Patented Dec. 28,1897.

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PATENT OFFICE LINCOLN MANNING, OF OLARKSVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,413, dated December28, 1897. Application filed May 6, 1897. Serial No. 635,332. (NomodelJTo all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LINooLN MANNING, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Clarksville, in the county of El Dorado and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBevel-Gages; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in bevel-gages for artisans use;and the object is to provide a simple and efficient device of thisclass.

To this end the novelty consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the same, as will be hereinaftermore fully described,-andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference-characters indicate thesame parts of the invention.

Figure lis a plan view of my improved bevel-gage. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transversesection on the diagonal line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

1 represents the gage-bar, provided with the lateral parallel alinedflanges 2 3.

The bar 1 is provided with a longitudinal slot 4 and an orifice 5.

6 represents an integral clamp-bracket extending parallel with thecontiguous plane face of the bar 1, and its free end is provided with anorifice '7, alined with the corresponding orifice 5 in the bar.

8 represents a plane square blade, the shorter arm 9 of which extendsthrough alongitudinal slot 10 in the flange 2, and an orifice 11 in saidarm is brought into alinement with the corresponding orifices in the barand bracket to receive a pivot-bolt 12, provided with a milled thumb-nut13 for adjustably securing said arm in place. The longer arm 14 alsoextends through a longitudinal guideslot 15 in the flange 2.

16 represents a clamp bolt extending through the slot 4 in the bar andthrough an orifice 17 in the heel of an adjustable clamp 18. This clam pis formed with a transverse shoulder 19 and an encompassing jaw 20,which re ceivesv the arm 14, and said clamp is adjustable on said armand the bolt 16 correspondingly adjustable in the slot 4, at any pointof which said arm and clamp may be rigidly secured by means of themilled thumb-nut 21.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.

1. The combination of the bar 1, provided with the integralclamp-bracket 6, and having the alined orifices 5 and 7, with the squareblade 8, having its shorter arm 9 provided with an orifice 11, and thepivot-bolt 12 provided with the milled thumb-nut 13 adapted to ad justably secure said arm between said bracket and the bar, substantiallyas shown and described.

2. The combination with the bar 1,provided with the integralclamp-bracket 6, the longi tudinal slot 4 and the flange 2 having theguide-slot 15, of the plane square blade 8, having its shorter armsecured between said bar and integral bracket, by a pivot-bolt 12, andthe adjustable clamp 18 formed with the transverse shoulder 19, the jaw20 engaging the longer arm of said blade and the bolt 16 adjustablysecured to said slot 4, and engaging said clamp 18 and provided With themilled thumb-nut 21, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

LIN OOLN MANNING.

Witnesses:

F. P. BURNHAM, J. DAVIS.

